Bosch dropped on 56published at 14.5 overs

14.5 overs

Oh my days! Almost brilliant from Katherine Brunt!

Anneke Bosch looks to swing into between long-on and mid-wicket and makes good connection.

Brunt goes hurtling round from long-on and makes up some very good ground to take a catch over her right shoulder.

The only problem is she's about to go over the boundary rope. She realises and throws the ball back in but isn't then able to get back over the rope in time to complete the catch.

She just didn't quite get enough height on the throw back in.

She smashes her hand into the turf in frustration and looks very angry with herself, but it would have been a sensational catch.

Tash Farrant
England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

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Alice Capsey all last summer in The Hundred she just had a habit of collecting a wicket when the team needed it.

Tash Farrant
England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

This is a really important part of the game. South Africa's openers are doing really well but they do need to kick on because there are plenty of batters left in the shed.

They should be aiming for a boundary almost every ball now.

This partnership has been really, really good...

Hmmm, maybe spin isn't hard to score off after all.

Anneke Bosch follows up the boundary that brought up her half-century with another into mid-wicket, before they work Sarah Glenn around for four more runs.

There perhaps should have been another boundary off the final ball, but Nat Sciver does brilliantly at short fine leg to stop it getting through.

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England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

It's a great start for South Africa, they've come out with excellent intent.

It's a great first-wicket partnership.

50 for Boschpublished at 15:23 British Summer Time 23 July 2022

15:23 BST 23 July 2022

Well deserved half-century for Anneke Bosch this.

It is her second in 11 T20 internationals.

Where was she in the ODIs?

Daniel Norcross
BBC Test Match Special

Had that been a direct hit from Amy Jones, Goodall would have been out.

Oh, the Katherine Brunt snarl is out. She's trying to hold it in because the fielder in question is 17-year-old debutant Alice Capsey.

She throws to Amy Jones as South Africa look to steal a second run, but the throw should have gone to the bowlers end.

Jones does try to hit the stumps at the non-striker's end - and I think Goodall would have been out with a direct hit, but she misses.

Capsey puts her fingers to the pursed lips. She knows she probably made an error of judgement there.

Double spin for England again as Sarah Glenn returns. It is a good over as she concedes just four singles.

It feels like spin is more difficult to score off at the moment so seeming England have overs of both Glenn and Ecclestone elft, plus two overs of Katherine Brunt, South Africa are going to have to target the right balls to get themselves up to a defendable score.

No, she's almost past the stumps by the time the ball hits the wickets.

On we go.

Has Lara Goodall been run out at the non-striker's end looking to steal a quick single?

Nobody seems particularly interested...

With England sneaking a breakthrough Nat Sciver returns to Sophie Ecclestone.

The left-arm spinner almost finds it by yorking Lara Goodall, but the left-hander does well to jar down on the ball and keep it out.

Quieter over with just five coming off it.

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BBC Test Match Special

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It's been a really good start from South Africa. They've got a really good base from which to build.

But you sense there are runs to get on this pitch. They need to add more runs if they want to put scoreboard pressure on England.

Melissa Story
BBC Test Match Special

It's raining boundaries. Suddenly this England bowling attack is really struggling for answers.

South Africa are starting to get going here.

Nat Sciver returns and it feels like the tourists have taken a liking to her.

Maia Bouchier does brilliantly to scamper round on the mid-wicket boundary to keep Anneke Bosch down to a couple, before Lara Goodall pulls and flicks away for successive fours.

Half way through the innings - what will South Africa be targeting with 10 wickets in hand? 150 minimum, surely?

Melissa Story
BBC Test Match Special

This is a different South Africa.

Have South Africa decided now is the time to start upping the ante?

It feels like it as Lara Goodall shuffles across and ramp-flicks the returning Freya Davies away for a very fine four.

That's a shot too. Anneke Bosch gets down on one knee and slog sweeps away to the square leg boundary.

Good over for the tourists with 10 coming off it.